Angel - Season 1, Episode 13: She
In which some other dimension is fighting each other on Earth.
That was a bad episode, and probably the first one of the series that I didn't like. Part of that is probably because I had trouble following along the intricacies of the other dimension people, and it all just seemed like too much explanation was needed to fit into a 45 minute episode. Women are slaves, and the men are jerks about it, and these people burn up or something when on Earth for some reason I didn't really catch. I don't know. It was just a mess.
From what I could gather, the motive was "I need to save my people, and will do so at the cost of your people" and Angel was all "No you won't. I will help you but not at the expense of my people" and then she was all "nuh uh I'm independent and strong and don't need you *runs off*" and then Angel is like "oh man I need to go help her because I'm the good guy, dammit" and then she was all "oh thank you but now we are rivals (only we'll never see each other again)." Something like that.
Also, I couldn't tell if that was sexual tension between Angel and the girl, or if it was just awkward acting. Since the ending seemed rather inconclusive about anything regarding what had happened in the episode, I thought maybe the female warrior girl would come back again at some point in the series. Since this episode bugged me so much, I felt the need to find out right away by iMDBing Bai Ling, and nope. Just one episode. Laaaame.
Even the humor seemed forced, as I didn't really go along with the groveling Wesley bit. The head in the clouds helper guy wasn't funny, either. The best part was the beginning, honestly, which did illicit some out loud laughs. But it all went downhill from there.
I will say, though, that "special" guest star Bai Ling was looking mighty fine in that outfit throughout the episode.
Let's just move on from here.
Up next: Buffy 13-14
--
snowpork
I wanna be a SuperNiceDog when I grow up!